Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Oman and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Warsaw to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Quantec,
Traffic Nightmare,
Trumans Water,
Toni Rubio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Donald Byrd,
The Remains,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Evens,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Fatback Band,
June Days,
Talk Talk,
Soft Machine,
The Doors,
Underground Resistance,
Graham Central Station,
Fluxion,
the Slits,
Can,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lalann,
Malaria!,
Donny Hathaway,
Absolute Body Control,
Intrusion,
Joe Smooth,
Ronan,
Roger Hodgson,
The Busters,
The Five Americans,
Magazine,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
New Order,
Angry Samoans,
Jesper Dahlback,
Warsaw,
Alison Limerick,
Section 25,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Althea and Donna,
The Red Krayola,
New Age Steppers,
Aaron Thompson,
Sun City Girls,
Colin Newman,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Skaos,
Gong,
Cybotron,
Audionom,
Soul II Soul,
Connie Case,
The Pretty Things,
Bobby Sherman,
Rakim,
Hasil Adkins,
The Cramps,
Bob Dylan,
Dead Boys,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.